The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.
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A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
Chosen beforehand.
Cited or quoted before or above.
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
To preconceive; to imagine beforehand.
To date before the true time; to antedate.
The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
To plan beforehand; to intend previously.
To determine or decree beforehand.
To bestow beforehand.
Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
Defense in front.
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
The finger next to the thumb; the index finger.
To flow before.
One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
Foremost part or place.
A first game; first plan.
A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached.
Same as Forgather.
A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease.
An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
One who forbears to enjoy.
past; -- used of time; as, foregone summers. Contrassted to present.
An inevitable outcome; a certain result; a certainty.
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
To conjecture.
The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct.
Done beforehand; anticipative.
Early; timely; seasonable.
The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
To hear beforehand.
The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
See Forhend.
To hew or cut in front.
The forward part of the hold of a ship.
Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
Foreign.
To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question.
Prejudgment.
To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
That may be foreknown.
One who foreknows.
With foreknowledge.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
To bind with a forel.
A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
To lay down beforehand.
One who leads others by his example; a guide.
See Forlend.
See Forlet.
To lie in front of.
To lift up in front.
The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
To look beforehand or forward.
The first or chief man The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker. The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
The position of a foreman.
The mast nearest the bow.
Intended beforehand; premeditated.
Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned.
The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
A female ancestor.
To name or mention before.
Named before; aforenamed.
See Legislature.
Over against; opposite to.
The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
Forensic.
An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
Forensic.
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
To foreordain.
Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
Bygone.
One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
Holding or held formerly in possession.
To prize or rate beforehand.
Promised beforehand; pre/ngaged.
Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.
imp. of Forerun.
The first rank; the front.
To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
Named or recited before.
Called to mind previously.
Right forward; onward.
To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
Mentioned before; aforesaid.
The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
To foretell.
To have or exercise foresight.
being such as may reasonable be anticipated; as, foreseeable costs were well within the budget.
Provided; in case that; on condition that.
One who foresees or foreknows.
To seize beforehand.
To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
See Foreshow.
The fore part of a ship.
the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks.
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
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